A Parallel Universe

by Alex Landon and Elaine Halleck

263 pages, price $20.50
ISBN 978-0-9827343-7-7

Available from Small Press Distribution (SPD)

Here is a unique bringing together of non-fiction (the lawyer's perspective) and
fiction (the writer's view) on a topic of devastating concern to victims and the
accused. Alex Landon (the lawyer) and Elaine Halleck (the writer) explore a particularly
difficult topic; the effect of laws enacted in the aftermath of brutal child abductions
and murders on those accused of lesser sexual crimes or those falsely accused, and
the effect on society as a whole.

"While Elaine Halleck's portion of the tale shows how policies of the criminal justice
system might exile one person from any sustaining contact with his community and
from any protection by civilizing principles that have evolved over the centuries,
Alex Landon's non-fiction sections show how these policies have had severe effects
on many other people and on the community at large. The ruinous expense of such
policies is an important point in many of Landon's chapters." - from the Introduction